I have a fascination with pitchers who show some consistency with the bat. I don’t mean who get one lucky swing for a homerun. I’m talking about those Carlos Zambranos, Mike Stantons, and Livan Hernandezes who break the mold of the stereotype of a weak hitting pitcher. Steve Dunning was…
The Twin City Thunderchickens played out the balance of our June games for the Illowa APBA League yesterday. Todd Ventresca and his Three Rivers Gamblers were left on the schedule. Todd couldn’t make it back for the convention held in Illinois but thanks to Skype, we were able to get…
by Teddy Ballgame The Chicago Champions played games forty through sixty-three in Champaign. That left a six game SKYPE series against the Illowa APBA League reigning Champs, the Green Rock Bombers. With Papa Bunch’s work schedule and my funn schedule, our series was setup to play Friday June 29th. Of…
Opening Day at the Bridesburg APBA League Brian Cavanaugh sent me an update on the Bridesburg APBA League new season. It seems the league is really thriving and has now expanded to fifteen teams! “15 participants in the draft chose from a hat that contained 3 cards each labeled #’s…
John Hutcheson and I got into a extended discussion over twitter about the upcoming release of BBW 5.75 any possible compatibility issues. Since the previous version did have issues with running on 64-bit versions of Windows, John was understandably concerned. Never fear, I checked with John Herson and he assured…
by Jeff Papas This week I’m performing a child’s most difficult duty — saying goodbye to a parent. My father passed away on Sunday night and while I spend time with family, we’re sharing memories. One of those memories concerns APBA. My dad was a baseball fan, though not a…
Strat-o-Matic Baseball and APBA Soccer fan Paul Dylan who is the blogger over at One for Five took the plunge and tried out the APBA Baseball game. Not only that he documented it with a full-fledged review of the game. It’s a pretty even-handed review. While Paul points out the…
Probably about time I got around to this one, eh? Babe Ruth’s 1927 card came across the APBA Baseball Facebook group page this past week. That’s good timing because we had a request for the Babe. Why? Because he is the unspoken standard of how we judge not only baseball…
You’re going have to bear with me because I’m not going to talk much about APBA in this article. I’m going to talk about my wife, Joan. You see, it’s our 23rd anniversary today. Twenty-three years ago today, we were married outside at my parents’ lake. Shortly afterwards, we went…
Appended on John Herson’s post talking about new direction of the Company is a laundry list of what APBA is up to these days (I’m liking this new era of transparency). Among other things, APBA has decided to reverse its decision to re-release the Negro League set which was last…